AirCare crew members Ron Hopson, Kevin King and Kevin Kennedy speak to students of the Topeka-Tilton Attendance Center in Monticello during the school's annual health fair.

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Jared Robert Senseman
Clarion-Ledger correspondent

Ten-year-old Luke Smith lay motionless with a crushed pelvis, his head pinned between the wheel and fender of the ATV he was riding only moments before.

That was how his grandfather found him that day in 2011, at his home in Sontag.

Luke was initially taken to King's Daughters Hospital in Brookhaven, but with the severity of his injuries it was deemed necessary for him to be medically evacuated to the University of Mississippi Medical Center for a higher level of care. ...